San Francisco Subway patrons hoping to gorge themselves on too much of a mediocre sandwich are being greeted by signs like the one above noting that “due to higher cost of doing business in San Francisco” obtaining a $5 footlong will require a trip over a bridge, through a tunnel, or onto the Peninsula.

There is some “good” news – the “monthly” $5 footlong promotion is still valid. Unfortunately, if one does not like tuna, one is out of luck this month, while those who prefer to not have breakfast after noon are going to have to dig a bit deeper next month.

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As the ultimate ILLEGALS sanctuary city, labor costs in SF have got to next to nothing. So clearly there is some other reason than costs why Subway is stopping the $5 subs there. (Have you seen one of those subs – you need an electron microscope to find the imitation meat, and all you get are cheap vegetables and a lot of bread.)

They can not openly discriminate against specific businesses but what they can do is offer special exemptions from taxes and regulations to certain fair-haired operations. So what they do is create a generally business hostile environment and then pass a series of exemptions for the businesses they want to succeed. So they are prohibited from explicitly picking losers (specifically penalizing specific businesses) but they can pick winners (give certain businesses a leg up through exemptions from taxes and regulations).

Twitter was going to leave SF, too, until SF gave them special tax exemptions. Solyndra was given hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax breaks by the state. There are a bazillion examples.

If you are considering locating a business here, DON’T DO IT. It could be the most costly mistake you have ever made.

I am rereading Atlas Shrugs and just got to the part where the Looters in Government were demanding a hiring wage for the workers, that business hire more workers and charge less for their services. Economic reality has eluded progressives for generations.

Squeezing the margins even further in the $5.00 cost of that sandwich is the Healthy SF tax to fund healthcare services for any uninsured SF resident without regard to immigration status, employment status, or pre-existing medical conditions. San Francisco residents with an income at or below 500% of the Federal Poverty Level (for one person $54,480; for a family of four $111,720) are eligible to receive these benefits.

If you think this is all about the minimum wage, you’ve obviously (a) never run a franchise and (b) never looked at rental prices in San Francisco. I’d strongly suspect that a 32-cent wage hike is the least of their concerns.

Once again, America — point and laugh at California if you like. Chuckle at cities that go bankrupt. Shake your head in amazement at non-enforcement of immigration laws. But learn from our mistakes. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR GOVERNMENT MAINTAINS A PERMANENT DEMOCRAT / PRO-PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNION MAJORITY.

San Francisco Subway patrons hoping to gorge themselves on too much of a mediocre sandwich are being greeted by signs like the one above noting that “due to higher cost of doing business in San Francisco” obtaining a $5 footlong will require a trip over a bridge, through a tunnel, or onto the Peninsula.

Emphasis added.

They simply cannot stop their bias from seeping through no matter what they do. LOL! :) :) :)

The snotty attitude of the SF Weekly “journalist” is par for the course. The fact that their middle class and family population is disappearing is, of course, completely coincidental.

azkag on March 30, 2012 at 7:21 PM

As a lifelong resident, I can live with that kind of snottiness.

Here’s why: Every metropolis has its own leftist tabloid that is largely supported by back-page advertisements for sleazy escort services and/or medical marijuana dispensaries. San Francisco has two: The SF Bay Guardian, and SF Weekly. SF Weekly is more intellectually honest than the Guardian; it’s like the difference between NPR and Pacifica Radio. The Weekly rarely gets into the business of right-bashing because in Northern California, there are few righties to bash; there are no self-identified Pubs in city governments, and there is so much local scandal and incompetence to highlight and expose, party or ideology labels matter little.

For example, SF Weekly writers have taken on the task of a regular feature (begun in 2009) called “The Worst Run Big City In The U.S.”, referring to San Francisco. Here is the first edition, featuring a Recreation & Parks honcho who fought the city’s controller when it was recommended that he make sure people employed by the department kinda, y’know, show up for work. After over three years of his nonsense, he and the city finally parted when a female subordinate got tired of him telling her that her clothes were too revealing (and that she needed to find Jesus). After she turned over to the city letters the Wreck-Park dude wrote her (LETTERS!) then-Mayor Newsom and he had a talk, and he agreed to resign — $91,000.00 later.

That’s just the beginning. From the same article:

The city’s ineptitude is no secret. “I have never heard anyone, even among liberals, say, ‘If only [our city] could be run like San Francisco,’” says urbanologist Joel Kotkin. “Even other liberal places wouldn’t put up with the degree of dysfunction they have in San Francisco. In Houston, the exact opposite of San Francisco, I assume you’d get shot.”

If you think this is all about the minimum wage, you’ve obviously (a) never run a franchise and (b) never looked at rental prices in San Francisco. I’d strongly suspect that a 32-cent wage hike is the least of their concerns.

Give the chumps 10 bucks an hour and the price of dogs goes up accordingly. Good thing there is no one left in San Francisco with a brain or they might figure it out.

I suggest they pass a law fixing the price of foot longs at 5 bucks. This could be done if they leave out the meat. They could also pass a law reducing a foot to 6 inches. This is more fair anyway, and reduces size envy

Can’t wait for Romney to help Subway only be able to offer the Tuna Melt in the rest of the country by auto adjusting minimum wages… There is nothing more severely conservative then auto adjusting minimum wages…

First they came for the Happy Meals. Then they came for the Subway Footlongs. What is next?

Subway actually began charging $5.50 for their “$5 Footlongs” in San Francisco a few months ago.

And yes, Canopfor, Subway does serve its footlongs in plastic bags in San Francisco.

I am glad that Subway is raising the issue of San Francisco’s much too high minimum wage.

With relatively new Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco finally has a Mayor who has shown that he understands commonsense.

There may be hope that Mayor Lee might set some limits on San Francisco’s ever increasing minimum wage and other high costs of doing business in the city.

On the other hand, the ILLEGAL aliens need their Sanctuary City to have a high minimum wage so there is enough room for the ILLEGALS to undercut the American workers while still getting a “living wage” themselves.

The local Italian deli here offers what Subway sells for $5 for $4 every day.

And the cool part about it isn’t that the sandwich maker carefully weighs the meat and then pulls off stuff until the weight is exact (like at Subway)… At the local shop the scale is for a minimum — if the amount goes over, you get it. And the guys (it’s family owned) are generous.